Kelvin flinched as if he had been hit. He was taken aback, “What do you mean by I’m still meeting Hannah behind your back?”“Why was Hannah in that restaurant? What was she even doing in that country when she had no jobs there?” She has already gone too far to stop. Might as well just confront him about it.“Are you asking me? How am I supposed to know,” he was surprised by her question.“How are you supposed to know?” Ariella asked with a sneer, “Do you want to tell me that if we check it, we won’t find out that the both of you left this country together and in the same plane or maybe a different one so that nobody will see you guys together and post the picture online,”“Ariella, before you hurl accusations at me, you should think carefully about it,”“What is there to think carefully about? Are you or are you not still meeting with Hannah behind my back then coming to tell me to not worry about her even when she came to your house to threaten me to stay away from you and claiming t
Kelvin calmly walked inside her room, dressed in a black long sleeved shirt tucked in dark pants. His hair was gelled and slicked back, exposing his handsome face. Ariella could not help it, she lost focus as she continued to stare at him.“You are not done?” Kelvin asked as he watched her hair come down on her face.“Uhm, sorry but I’m not dressed yet. I thought you were Maria,” Ariella gave an awkward laugh as she caught herself. She glanced at the door hoping that Maria would come in and save the moment but Maria was nowhere to be found.Kelvin gave her a slow smile, “I can wait. We are not in a hurry. We can leave anytime you are done, so take your time.”“Alright,” Ariella continued to look at him, expecting him to walk out so she could continue to arrange her hair, but he just stood there and continued to watch her with dark eyes.“What?” Kelvin asked with raised brows when she continued to look at him without making any moves to arrange her hair that was all over her face.He r
Seeing Ariella again was euphoric he decided to ask that they go on a walk. He was glad when for the first time she opened up to him and they talked. He was supposed to always be around after that time but his friends and business partners found out he was around, they all wanted to catch up and also talk business with him so he became so busy.He did not know which was worse, conducting business he did not plan for or hearing that Arialla was still sleeping when he was leaving in the morning or that she had gone to bed by the time he woke up.The day he was finally free, he had to take her to the hospital because of her swollen feet and the fact that he mistakenly made her slip and fall in the bathing tub. He did not have much to complain about because he got to see her naked for the first time. Well, it was not supposed to be the first time but their first time together, though it was wonderful, he did not see her naked body and thought she was someone else. That one does not count
Realizing just how close they were to each other, Arialla jerked back but that was a mistake on her part because she stepped on her dress with her high heels and stumbled backward. Her eyes widened in horror and her hands shot out to look for something to grab and she ended up grabbing the lapels of his jacket at the same time his hand wrapped around her waist and he drew her to her former position. Only this time she was closer. The only space between them was the one created by her baby bump.Kelvin brought his head down until his lips were closed to her ear, “What are you trying to do? You were going to hurt yourself. Why are you running away?” Her hot breath fanned her ear and she could not help but shiver.“I’m not running away,” her voice was low and less audible“Could have fooled me,” his mouth brushed her against her ear as he spoke and Kelvin could not resist the urge to close his teeth around the soft flesh.Ariella’s hold on his jacket tightened as his sharp teeth sank i
Why did he even bother to even bring her out to dinner if he was going to forget about her existence? She thought that the pressing of his phone would stop once they got down from the car but she was mistaken because he continued to do so even after they were seated and had placed their orders.She peered at him from under her lashes and her anger spiked up when she realized that he was now on a call. His food has gone cold by now.Arialla wanted to snap at him, tell him to drop his phone and have the dinner he invited her for but she reasoned that what he was doing might be a business that was more important to him than having dinner with her . The food was good and it smelled nice, she did not feel like throwing up or anything. I’m fact, she was enjoying herself. Ariella had nothing to complain about except for the behavior of the man sitting opposite her.She wished he would drop his phone and focus on dinner, talk and tease her like he did in her room before they got here. She h
“No,” Kelvin shook his head, “I’m not hooking up with her,” Though he did not think she would still insist on an answer, he did not hold back from responding. She was cool headed now and if things were going to work out between them, they had to live in peace and get along well. There would be no getting along if she thought that Hannah was in the picture. He also felt like he owed it to her to give an explanation. God, he was doing so many things he has never done before and it was all because of her.“Really?” She asked as she reached for her glass of juice again. She took a sip before she peered at him over the glass, “So how come the both of you decided to hop on a plane and land at the same time?” Until he gave her a believable story, she was not going to take his word for it.“It was a coincidence,”“Well, I do not believe in coincidence and I’m not a fool. I was there for a long time and you never cared to visit. All of a sudden, you appeared at the door, then I saw your ex-gi
“Oh my God, what are you doing here?” Arialla asked, her eyes sparkling with excitement as she gazed up with Steven. He was a man with blonde hair and his eyes were the color of blue skies.“I came for dinner with my…” Steven trailed off as he glanced at the woman who was hanging on his arm, “Beautiful friend,Amy,”“Nice to meet you, Amy,” Ariella stretched out her hand to the woman with a wide smile. She realized only too late that she should not have done that because the other woman just stared at her hand in disgust and refused to take it. The smile on Ariella’s face froze and everything became awkward.Amy looked a little familiar but for the life of her, she could not place where she had seen her.“Amy,” Steven called with a red face as he poked the other woman’s side.“Oh, yeah, that’s right. It is really nice to meet you, Ariella,” Amy said with a wide smile that did not touch her eyes as she grabbed Ariella’s hand that she left hanging. She squeezed tightly, causing Ariella
Gladys was crying outside the room Ariella was locked in with the doctors and Kelvin was trying his best to console her. Their private doctors had been waiting in front of the house with a gurney when Jude drove inside the compound. They quickly took her away into the underground room that served as a hospital room in his house. The doctors had been in there for a few hours and Kelvin was beginning to panic but he knew that he needed to be strong for his mother.“How could this happen again? What if something happens to her or the baby?” Gladys cried into Kelvin’s chest, “I don’t think she will ever recover if anything was to happen to her child. This is wrong in so many ways.”“Shhh, mom, we cannot think the worst right now. She will be fine. She is a fighter,” Kelvin did not know if he was consoling himself or his mother. Maybe he was consoling the both of them.“Your father and I should have taken care of this years ago but we couldn’t. I’m so sorry Kelvin, I’m so sorry,” Gladys c